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  <Title>Experiments with Interactive Question Answering in Complex Scenarios</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we presented a new framework for the decomposition of complex information-seeking scenarios.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We proposed that question decomposition for interactive Q/A could be approached in one of two ways: either (1) by approximating the domain-specific knowledge for a particular set of domains or (2) by identifying the decomposition strategies employed by human users. In addition, we presented preliminary experimental results that confirmed the viability of both of these approaches. We discussed two years' worth of experiments that investigated how users of varying levels of expertise decomposed complex scenarios, as well as work that described how a database of question/answer pairs could be used to improve the coverage of Q/A systems for domain-specific questions.</Paragraph>
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